Sam Hazledine

Dr Sam Hazledine is a New Zealand doctor turned medical entrepreneur and the founder of Medrecruit, Australasia’s largest medical recruitment company and MedWorld, a platform dedicated to the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers.

Hazledine trained as a medical doctor before founding Medrecruit, which featured in the Deloitte Fast 50 as the fastest-growing service business in the country. He went on to found wealth-management company MedCapital, co-found broad talent management firm WeAreTenzing and build MedWorld into a “worklife operating system” connecting healthcare workers and employers.

In 2017, Hazledine successfully lobbied the World Medical Association to include the health and wellbeing of the doctor in the Declaration of Geneva: the modern-day Hippocratic Oath. That campaign reflected a core conviction: that caring for the carers is not a soft issue but a systemic one and that the healthcare system cannot function sustainably if the people inside it are burning out.

Hazledine was named EY Young Entrepreneur of the Year and received a Sir Peter Blake Leader Award. He is a graduate of the University of Otago and continues to speak and write on leadership, wellbeing and the intersection of medicine and business.

Hazledine’s profile is noteworthy because he used his medical training to build a suite of businesses that serve healthcare workers rather than patients and achieved something rare: changing the wording of medicine’s most important ethical oath to reflect the reality of the people who live by it.

Sources: Medenterprises · University of Otago · Samhazledine.com